Trawire.com offers portable 4G MiFi and iPad rentals for visitors traveling to Iceland. Trawire’s CIO approached me for assistance after his systems administrator bailed and left him with a poorly maintained, self-hosted MacMini server running unoptimized WordPress installs.

Trawire website

I migrated the site to Amazon Web Services, where it now can handle traffic spikes and can be scaled and built out more easily, should the concept grow to additional markets. Working with my WordPress coding contacts in India, Trawire developed plugins to add features, and keep the software up-to-date. My contributions: caching and content distribution for static assets & queries, Virtualmin and phpMyAdmin for ease of management and development.

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Light Sport & Ultralight Flying Magazine needed an easy-to-manage e-commerce solution, coupled with Content Management and slideshows.

I used Joomla plus VirtueMart, and SlideShowPro to give them a sophisticated system that is simple to use.

Light Sport & Ultralight Flying Magazine website

The magazine has been in circulation since 1975, so the publishers know how to survive and thrive. Online sales & subscriptions give the print magazine a fighting chance against online outlets in a tight niche market.

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